All 4 Uses
naive
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
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- She was young, naive, stimulated by the coolness.†
Chpt 2 *
- If she was the naive girl, Guy Pollock was the clumsy boy.†
Chpt 13
- Carol was an amusing, naive, curiously learned child.†
Chpt 21
- She was humbled by his humility; she put away in her mind, to take out and worry over later, a speculation as to whether it was not she who was naive.†
Chpt 29
Definitions:
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(1)
(naive) lacking experience or sophistication, and the understanding that comes from them -- often too trusting or optimistic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)